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Vampires, Werewolves, and Elves as Evil Beings
ballplayer72:
Rob Thurman did a good job with werewolves and Elves/Fae, in his Nightlife, Moonshine, and forthcoming Madhouse books. Elves are viscious cruel rage filled psychopaths. Werewolves are thuggish stupid gangsters. other races also exist. I highly recommend this series by the way
WyldCard4:
Thank you all for your many detailed and well thought out answers.
The Satanic sorcery idea had never dawned upon me and answers a lot of the reason I asked about this and something I forgot to talk about in the OP. a big part of the problem was thinking of a way for each to be different and have a part in the setting.
In answer to the question of what the story is about, it is an idea I have been kicking around for awhile.
A story where there is an end of the world scenario and it is like flipping over a stone for the supernatural, it had been hiding for centuries, weak and failing for millennia unable to fight humanities numbers and innovation until humanity blew itself up
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Both the Dark and the Light are present in the world and both rise again with the Dark believing that it is its last chance to destroy humanity and the Light doing the right thing and defending it.
The story will (or would as I have yet to even plot it out) be about the human race’s gathering together to destroy the supernatural once and for all. The Light to will die for reasons that would spoil the plot if I ever where to write this.
The Werewolves as evil magicians is very good as they could represent the humans who valued life over good and turned to the only ways they could survive in the new world, much like SM Stirling’s Dies the Fire series with the cannibal Eaters.
The Elves and Vampires I am completely satisfied with now and your answers give my all the information I need to make them Evil and not tragic.
Thank you all very much.
The Corvidian:
--- Quote from: ballplayer72 on February 01, 2008, 04:17:04 AM ---Rob Thurman did a good job with werewolves and Elves/Fae, in his Nightlife, Moonshine, and forthcoming Madhouse books. Elves are viscious cruel rage filled psychopaths. Werewolves are thuggish stupid gangsters. other races also exist. I highly recommend this series by the way
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Rob Thurman is a woman. Check out her website.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: WyldCard4 on February 01, 2008, 05:19:47 AM ---Both the Dark and the Light are present in the world and both rise again with the Dark believing that it is its last chance to destroy humanity and the Light doing the right thing and defending it.
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I still don't get what the Dark's motivation is in this scene.
There was an anthology a few years back called Under the Fang, which was about a world vaguely after a nuclear war and winter where vampires had taken over, which might be worth your looking at - on the grounds that it's what any reviewers are likely to compare a book of this sort to. The only story in it I remember sticking was a Chelsea Quiin Yarbro/Suzy McKee Charnas collaboration, about exactly what you wound expect it to be about if you have read their respective vampire novels.
WyldCard4:
--- Quote from: neurovore on February 01, 2008, 06:55:47 PM ---I still don't get what the Dark's motivation is in this scene.
There was an anthology a few years back called Under the Fang, which was about a world vaguely after a nuclear war and winter where vampires had taken over, which might be worth your looking at - on the grounds that it's what any reviewers are likely to compare a book of this sort to. The only story in it I remember sticking was a Chelsea Quiin Yarbro/Suzy McKee Charnas collaboration, about exactly what you wound expect it to be about if you have read their respective vampire novels.
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The Dark is scared.
It has been weakening for most of history and sees this as it's last chanece to survive into the future without man to hunt it down and drive it out, the Dark and the Light are in a state of balance but humanity tips that balance as it is free to act on its own.
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